Electron counting in cationic and anionic silver clusters doped with a 3d transition-metal atom: endo-vs. exohedral geometry

K Minamikawa, S Sarugaku, M Arakawa… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Electron counting is a concept that often governs properties of molecules, clusters, and
complexes. Here we explore silver clusters doped with a transition-metal atom, where it has …

Effects of van der Waals interactions on the structure and stability of Cu8-xPdx (x= 0, 4, 8) cluster isomers

A Luna-Valenzuela, JL Cabellos, JA Alonso… - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
Detailed knowledge of the minimum energy and low-lying structures of metal clusters is
crucial to understand their physicochemical properties. In this work, the effect of van der …

Magnetic nanodo**: Atomic control of spin states in cobalt doped silver clusters

V Zamudio-Bayer, K Hirsch, L Ma, K De Knijf, X Xu… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The interaction of magnetic dopants with delocalized electron states can result in interesting
many-body physics. Here, the magnetic properties of neutral and charged finite silver metal …

[HTML][HTML] Catalytic activity of Co–Ag nanoalloys to dissociate molecular hydrogen. New insights on the chemical environment

G Ortega, E Germán, MJ Lopez, JA Alonso - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Adsorption of molecular hydrogen on the surface of catalytic metal nanoparticles and its
dissociation in atomic hydrogen are processes of interest in many chemical technologies. As …

The geometry, electronic and magnetic properties of Zr n Ni (n= 2-14) clusters: A first-principles jointed particle-swarm-optimization investigation

Y Du, Y Wang, X Ji, X Cui, H Duan, H Cao… - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Zirconium-nickel binary alloys and metal glass have superior performance like ultrahigh
fracture strength, good toughness. In this paper, the structures of small-sized Zr n Ni (n= 2 …

Interaction of hydrogen with palladium–copper nanoalloys

A Gómez Herranz, E Germán, JA Alonso… - Theoretical Chemistry …, 2021 - Springer
Do** porous carbons with palladium nanoparticles is known to enhance the hydrogen
storage capacity of these materials. Alloying palladium with the non-expensive metal copper …

C60Con complexes as hydrogen adsorbing materials

E Germán, JA Alonso, E Janssens, MJ López - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
An active line of contemporary research is dedicated to the adsorption and storage of
hydrogen on metal-doped carbon materials. Using density functional theory and van der …

Exploring s–d, s–f, and d–f Electron Interactions in AgnCe+ and AgnSm+ by Chemical Reaction toward O2

M Arakawa, N Hayashi, K Minamikawa… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We investigate gas-phase reactions of free Ag n Ce+ and Ag n Sm+ clusters with oxygen
molecules to explore s–d, s–f, and d–f electron interactions in the finite size regime; a Ce …

Reaction of nitric oxide molecules on transition-metal-doped silver cluster cations: size-and dopant-dependent reaction pathways

M Arakawa, M Horioka, K Minamikawa… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We report size-and dopant-dependent reaction pathways as well as reactivity of gas-phase
free AgnM+ (M= Sc–Ni) clusters interacting with NO. The reactivity of AgnM+, except for M …

Concentration asymmetry and carbon enrichment in titanium carbide and silicon carbide clusters

JI Martínez, JA Alonso - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
The mass spectra of metal clusters obtained by gas aggregation and laser vaporization
techniques show variations of the abundance with cluster size, and the best-known …